Social Traps and Social Trust
Cowan, Michael A.![Social Traps and Social Trust](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/356/35658181/CHSBZCOP0335658181.jpg)
The articles in this special issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy are unusual in two respects. First, they reflect the practical wisdom of seasoned actors, rather than the theoretical knowledge of academicians. The typically unexamined assumption of the academy is that good practice in the world is simply the application of sound theory from the academy. It does not take long in the public arena, however, to discover that leaders ...